He stared, the words blurring on the screen. It was like a physical blow, a punch to the gut. The internet’s merciless glare illuminated the raw honesty of his teenage self. He felt the blood rush to his face, a simmering heat he couldn’t contain.

He remembered the cliques, the gossip, the people who had made his high school years a misery. One name in particular, Jessica, stood out. She was the queen bee, the one who’d orchestrated his humiliation at the prom. He found her. She now had a small fashion boutique. He became her number one critic, leaving scathing reviews.

He continued this for hours.

Emotion: vindictive

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 2.55 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 4.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vindictive. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vindictive stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vindictive emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vindictive vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.878
la0.516
😈0.509
l0.504
diplom0.476
Suppressed:
own-1.035
此刻-0.573
గుర్త-0.532
熟悉的-0.526
ness-0.509